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Gerard Strickland & Chaplains in the Crimean War
This year, 26 April marks the 165th anniversary of the death of Fr Gerard Strickland SJ, a Jesuit army chaplain, during the Crimean War....

Mary Allen
Apr 25, 20213 min read


When an object becomes sacred
In 2018, shortly before the final closure of Heythrop College, some very special items arrived at the British Jesuit Archives.

Mary Allen
Apr 11, 20212 min read


Reflections on creating our Relic Exhibition
On 1 March 2021 the virtual relic exhibition, How bleedeth burning love, launched. This was a very exciting, and by then long...

Rebecca Somerset
Mar 28, 20216 min read


Cataloguing Antiquarian Books at home and lessons learnt
A year and three lockdowns into the pandemic and our old way of working has fractured, the ‘new normal’ has become the merely normal....

Lucy Vinten
Mar 15, 20215 min read


How Bleedeth Burning Love: A history of the Martyrs’ Cause
Christ's Bloody Sweat by Robert Southwell, from which the exhibition's title is taken Veneration of the English and Welsh Martyrs of the...

Mary Allen
Mar 1, 20214 min read


A Tale of Two Printers
Lockdown and working from home has meant that I have not been able to continue with cataloguing the books in the Jesuit Antiquarian Book...

Lucy Vinten
Feb 15, 20217 min read
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